SEO Step By Step Guide–37. Mistakes to be Avoided in Article Submissions

Though article submissions help us get high quality back links it does not mean that we can get the desired results automatically irrespective of the quality of the work done in this area.

When you want to submit your articles to the article directories make sure that you have an exhaustive list of article directories available on the web. Do not submit to these directories in a random fashion. Try to organize your list of article sites. List well established sites and websites with high page rank on the top of your list. Do not set out to submit your articles with the article directories arranged alphabetically. This will only waste your time. Your time should be spent on submitting first to directories with high page rank and article directories that have been online for a number of years so that your links will have value.

You should start your submissions with the websites with high PR. This will get your high value links indexed first boosting your sites ranking. When you are submitting your articles to article directories, you must not do all the submission on the same day using some submission software. Try to spread the submissions over a period of time so that your websites will acquire links in a more natural fashion.

Do not submit the same article to hundreds of article directories. You must try to bring in as many variations as possible in the articles. Avoid using article spinning software products to churn out articles that do not make any sense to the human readers. Such articles will not be approved by the article directories so you will be wasting your time in submitting your poorly written articles.

Pay attention to your article content. Try to make it as interesting as possible give some valuable information to the audience so that they will be compelled to use your article or link to your article.

Do not stuff your articles with keywords, this will send an alert to the search engines. This will dilute the effectiveness of your article submission efforts. Before submitting the articles make sure to check the links that you include in the article. Manually click the links and check whether it is leading to the right page that you want to link. There can be typographical errors in the links and this can send visitors and search engine bots to 404 pages. This is to totally waste the work you have done on your article submission. Double-checking the links always pays.

If you want to boost your search rankings and your traffic for a particular season, do not submit your articles in the last moment. It takes a lot of time to submit your articles to all top article directories, the article directories to approve you articles, search engines to pick your articles and the others users to publish your articles in their sites with the links. So this is a long process, which needs time. Plan well in advance so that you can enjoy the results of your efforts right in time.

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